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In more great news, three Cooke International titles are celebrated on NPR's Best Books of 2017 list! Congratulations to Scaachi Koul for ONE DAY WE'LL ALL BE DEAD AND NONE OF THIS WILL MATTER (Doubleday Canada), Sofia Samatar for TENDER, and Kij Johnson for THE RIVER BANK!

One Day We'll All Be Dead And None of This Will Matter

"Each essay in BuzzFeed writer Scaachi Koul's collection begins with an email exchange with her father, who is often simultaneously furious and magnanimous (you can see where Koul gets her dry humor). She examines her family in a frank yet tender way, from her parents' beautiful and dark sides to her hopes and concerns for her niece, nicknamed Raisin. Koul is especially afraid of death and everyone in her life dying (she mentions planning her own funeral and hypothetically dealing with her parents' estate several times) but she fights through that anxiety, even if it means facing her fears of flying, open water and spiders on a bumpy trip to Southeast Asia." —NPR, Best Books of 2017

Tender

"Most of the 20 sumptuous tales in Sofia Samatar's collection Tender take place on Earth – although not always the Earth we might recognize. Sprawling in subject from the supernatural power of names to the loneliness of a half-robot woman, Tender redefines the emotional power and literary heft that speculative fiction can convey. Where Samatar's acclaimed fantasy novels exist in a strange, dreamlike world, her short stories daringly explore the overlap of familiarity and otherness." —NPR, Best Books of 2017

The River Bank

"A beautiful, pitch-perfect sequel to Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, with characters original to Kij Johnson and spot illustrations by Kathleen Jennings, The River Bank is that species of fan fiction that unfolds new material from a beloved property with hardly a hint of a seam. Meandering with a river's pace through musings on art, home and the end of summer, The River Bank is a more than worthy successor." —NPR, Best Books of 2017